NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points

193% significantly better overall score

278 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

18 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

84.13 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

4121 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

5449 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

3037 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

223% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3517 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4645 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4311 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

3739 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

249% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3389 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

680 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144.2 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

75 W

86% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

82% significantly higher pixel rate

11.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

82% significantly higher texture rate

45.18 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

25% slightly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 586

389th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 660 vs Quadro K3100M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660 GPU is faster than the Quadro K3100M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 660 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K3100M has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro K3100M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660 is faster than the Quadro K3100M.